01 — Real index map
The field is
never uniform
From the road this is one crop in one field. In index it is a dozen different fields — strong stands, marginal ground, drainage lines and failed patches, each one measurable and each one worth a different decision.
Shows
Vigour variation
Reveals
Drainage patterns
Flags
Stress before sight
Covers
Every acre
02 — Deliverables
What you
get back
Maps you can act on the same week — in formats that load into the software you already run, not a PDF you have to interpret by eye.
01
Index maps
NDVI, NDRE and GNDVI across the full parcel, georeferenced and scaled so values compare between flights rather than just looking different.
02
Management zones
The field divided into performance zones, exported as shapefiles ready for variable-rate application in your own controller.
03
Scouting priority
The specific coordinates worth walking, ranked — so a scouting trip checks the ground the data flagged instead of a diagonal across the field.
04
Season comparison
Flights stacked across growth stages or years, so you can see whether a problem acre is a bad season or a permanent feature of the ground.
03 — Why multispectral
By the time
it looks bad,
it is bad
Visible yellowing means the plant has already lost chlorophyll. Reflectance in the near-infrared and red-edge bands changes well before that — while a treatment decision can still recover the acre rather than just document its loss.
Satellite imagery reads the same bands, but at a resolution and revisit rate that averages your problem away under cloud. A drone flies under the cloud, on your schedule, at a resolution that resolves individual rows.
- Low NDVI, uniform patch
- Stand or emergence failure
- Low index along contours
- Drainage or compaction
- NDRE down, NDVI holding
- Early nitrogen shortfall
- Expanding irregular patch
- Disease or pest pressure
04 — How it runs
01
Plan
Field boundaries and growth stage set the flight date. Timing near solar noon in stable light keeps reflectance values comparable between passes.
02
Fly
Automated grid capturing all bands plus RGB on one pass, with an irradiance reference so the data is calibrated rather than merely colourful.
03
Process
Bands stitched and calibrated, indices computed across the parcel, and zones drawn where the variation is real rather than noise.
04
Deliver
Index maps, zone shapefiles and a scouting list — handed over in a form your agronomist and your controller can both use directly.
05 — Who books this
Growers and
agronomists
Row crop operations
In-season stress detection, stand assessment and variable-rate zones — putting input where it returns and pulling it off ground that will not pay.
Agronomists & crop consultants
Whole-field data behind a recommendation, and a defensible before-and-after when a client asks whether the programme worked.
Pasture & forage managers
Forage vigour and utilisation across grazing units, for rotation decisions and overgrazing evidence.
Land owners & insurers
Dated, georeferenced evidence of crop condition for lease disputes, damage claims and land valuation.
Ask us how we can help
with your next project
Tell us the acreage, the crop and where you are in the season. We will come back with the flight window, the deliverable and the number — usually same day.